Inside Ilé-Ifẹ́

23/07/2026

PRESS RELEASE

Youth Organisation Urges Osun Government to Reconstruct Collapsed F3 Farmlands Bridge, Strengthen Security.

The Ife Youth Organisation (IYO) has appealed to the Osun State Government to urgently reconstruct the collapsed bridge leading to the F3 Farmlands in the Ife Forest Reserve following the recent heavy rainfall.

The Organisation noted that the bridge serves as the only major access route to the F3 Farmlands and its collapse has left hundreds of farmers stranded, preventing them from accessing their farmlands and threatening agricultural production.

Beyond its importance to agriculture, the bridge is a critical link between Ife South Local Government Area and Ayedaade Local Government Area through Orile-Owu, serving as a major transportation corridor for residents, farmers, traders, and other road users. Its collapse has therefore disrupted economic and social activities, causing untold hardship to the affected communities.

The F3 Farmlands fall within the Ife Native Authority, making Ile-Ife the traditional authority over the area. Over the years, the farmlands have developed into one of the largest agricultural hubs in the region, providing arable land for hundreds of farmers and contributing significantly to food production, employment generation, and the rural economy of Osun State. Preserving this strategic agricultural asset is therefore in the collective interest of both the Ife people and the Government of Osun State.

The Organisation further stressed that continued neglect of the collapsed bridge could lead to enormous economic losses, destruction of agricultural investments, disruption of food supply, and a decline in confidence in government-driven agricultural development initiatives.

Accordingly, the Ife Youth Organisation calls on the Osun State Government to urgently:

- Reconstruct the collapsed bridge to restore access to the F3 Farmlands and reconnect Ife South and Ayedaade Local Government Areas.
- Establish an Emergency Prompt Response Scheme to provide swift intervention whenever verified distress calls are received from legitimate farmers.
- Strengthen security and government presence within the F3 Farmlands to safeguard farmers, farmlands, and agricultural investments.

The Organisation emphasized that investing in the F3 Farmlands is an investment in Osun State's food security, youth employment, rural connectivity, and economic growth. Prompt government intervention will not only protect existing agricultural investments but also improve mobility for neighbouring communities and encourage more young people to embrace agriculture as a sustainable means of livelihood.

The Ife Youth Organisation remains committed to partnering with the Osun State Government, relevant agencies, and other stakeholders to advance agricultural development, improve rural infrastructure, and ensure that the F3 Farmlands continue to contribute meaningfully to the economic prosperity and food security of Osun State.

E-signed:

Ife Youth Organisation (IYO)

04/07/2026

Promise fulfilled

01/07/2026

01/07/2026

OBI AND NIGERIA: IF YOU MUST EAT FROGS, EAT THE FAT ONE BEFORE 2027 :
From 419 to Assets: The Obi Test of Real Wealth
Because Fraud Dies, But Financial Literacy Builds Nations

There’s an Igbo proverb that cuts like a blade: “If you must eat a frog, eat a fat one.”

If shame must find you, let it find you for something big. Something weighty. Something you can beat your chest for when they mock you.

Nigerians today are eating frogs. But we are eating tadpoles. 419. Ponzi. Fake alerts. “Yahoo yahoo”. Small money that ruins destinies, lands you in EFCC, and cannot build a street, let alone a nation.

Robert Kiyosaki wrote an interesting book called FAKE in which he said that the money we use is “fake”. Since 1971, money stopped being gold. It became debt. It became numbers on a screen. Inflation eats it daily. That is the game the world is playing.

Let’s be clear: The use of “fake” by Kiyosaki is NOT fraud. Fake money is the legal system. Naira, Dollar, Bitcoin - all fiat. All rules you can study. All assets you can master. It’s the field. Fraud is 419. It’s breaking the rules. It’s stealing on the field. One builds nations. The other builds prisons.

Kiyosaki says the rich studied the rules of this “fake money” - assets, cashflow, trusts, tax - while the poor cursed it and stayed broke. The rich didn’t commit fraud. They mastered the field.

So here is the choice before Nigeria: If you must play with “fake money”, eat the fat frog. Learn the rules. Don’t steal from your brother for N50,000 and call it hustle. That’s a tadpole. Learn how assets work. Learn how businesses grow. Learn how capital flows. That’s the fat frog. And you can beat your chest for it 20 years later.

There was a Nigeria before the Nigerian Factor.

Up until the 1970s, Nigerians were attitudinally responsible. Your word was your bond. “I no go vex” meant something. Traders kept records on paper and in their head. Civil servants feared disgrace more than sack. Discipline, thrift, and “cut your coat” were national character. We built roads that lasted 30 years. We exported groundnut, cocoa, palm oil. We saved. We waited.

Then came the military in the 70s + the 1979 political class. Oil money flooded in. “National cake” entered our vocabulary. Suddenly, connection beat competence. Shortcuts beat sweat. “Nigerian Factor” became gospel: “Oga, make we manage am like that.” Cut corners. Jump queue. Inflate contract. “Na so we dey do am.”

The military taught Nigerians that power is for sharing. The 1979 politicians taught us that politics is for eating. 419 was born from that classroom. Tadpole mentality was planted. Get it now, get it anyhow, get it by force.

That is exactly what Obi stands against. He is anti-Nigerian Factor. He is proof that you can still say “no” to shortcuts and yes to assets. He is dragging us back to pre-70s discipline: production over sharing, patience over Ponzi, assets over applause.

Obi is not just running for office. He is trying to un-teach 50 years of bad attitude.

Peter Obi is a corporate player before he became a politician. He did not start by begging. He started by producing. He built Next International. He moved from trading to manufacturing to banking. He understood assets vs liabilities.

That is why as governor of Anambra, he did not lock money in a bank to collect interest. He invested in stocks, in production, in schools, in hospitals. He said no to “share the money”. He chose assets that would outlive him. Today those investments still speak for him.

They call him “stingy”. No. He ate the fat frog. He refused tadpoles. He refused to share money for applause. He chose to plant trees he may never sit under.

That is Kiyosaki’s lesson: The rich don’t chase cash. They chase assets. Cash is fake and it dies. Assets are real and they compound.

419 was once “the fat frog” for some boys in the 90s. Today it’s shame. Interpol chases it. Banks block it. Mothers cry over it. Nothing built on lies stands the test of time.

But the man who learns “fake money” - how inflation works, how to buy land, how to build a business, how to invest in skills - that man cannot be mocked 10 years later. Even his enemies will say “the man knew what he was doing.”

Nigeria’s problem is not lack of money. It’s lack of money sense. We pray against “spirit of poverty” but refuse to study cashflow. We curse politicians but cannot read a budget. We want Dangote’s wealth but reject Dangote’s discipline.

Nigerians, if you must eat frogs, eat the fat one.

If you must risk shame, risk it for learning accounting. Risk it for buying your first plot of land. Risk it for building a small factory. Risk it for mastering a skill the world will pay for.

Burn the 419 mindset. Burn the “quick money” devil. Burn the idea that fraud is smarter than knowledge.

Obi is showing us the fat frog. Production over consumption. Assets over applause. Discipline over desperation.

The 2027 test is not just about who wins election. It’s about which Nigerians will stop eating tadpoles and start chewing the fat frog of financial literacy.

So I ask you: When they tease you in 10 years, will you beat your chest for a Yahoo account that got blocked, or for an asset you built that still feeds your children?

Eat the fat frog, Nigeria. Learn money. Legally. Boldly. Ruthlessly.

Because ‘fake’ money can build real nations. But real fraud only builds real prisons.

02/04/2026

29/03/2026

How they plan to keep... be careful

16/03/2026

*IFE YOUTHS ANNOUNCE PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION OVER ELECTRICITY CHALLENGES*

The Ife Youths Organization has announced plans for a peaceful demonstration to demand improved electricity supply and fairer billing practices from the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company across communities in Ile-Ife.

In a notice issued by the group’s publicity committee, the youth body called on sons and daughters of Ile-Ife, residents, and other concerned stakeholders to participate in the civic action aimed at drawing attention to the persistent challenges faced by residents, including irregular power supply and what they described as questionable billing practices.

*TII EXECUTIVE COUNCIL ARE IN FULL SUPPORT OF THIS HISTORICAL DEMONSTRATION.*